REFUSAL TO PLEAD
“SOLDIERS OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC” SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IN GAOL. ,i . POSSESSION OF EXPLOSIVES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. Refusing, as soldiers Of the Irish Republic, to plead, John Leo Duigan, aged 26, who declared himself not interested in the proceedings, and Peter Campbell, aged 24, who accused the judge and jury of bias, were sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude, for unlawfully possessing explosives. The men shouted: “Up the Republic!” when they were sentenced.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1939, Page 8
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86REFUSAL TO PLEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1939, Page 8
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